[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1113 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1113

To amend title 28, United States Code, to remand certain civil actions 
     transferred by the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2015

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to remand certain civil actions 
     transferred by the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION.

    Section 1407(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``When'' and inserting ``(1) When''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) Upon a motion of a plaintiff in a civil action described in 
paragraph (1), if the panel does not remand the action at or before the 
conclusion of such pretrial proceedings to the district from which it 
was transferred before the date that is 5 years after the date on which 
the action is transferred--
            ``(A) the action shall be remanded to the district court 
        from which it was transferred; and
            ``(B) on remand, the district court shall set a schedule 
        for the time for completion of discovery and a trial date for 
        the action in accordance with chapter 23 and the civil justice 
        expense and delay reduction plan of the district court 
        implemented in accordance with that chapter.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall apply to any civil action 
pending in a transferee district court described in section 1407 of 
title 28, United States Code, on or after August 1, 2010.
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